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Fixed: The Linux Desktop Responsiveness Problem?

08-04-2010, 09:30 AM

Phoronix: Fixed: The Linux Desktop Responsiveness Problem?

One of the problems commonly talked about in our forums and elsewhere is the poor responsiveness of the Linux desktop when dealing with significant disk activity on systems where there is insufficient RAM or the disks are slow. The GUI basically drops to its knees when there is too much disk activity, which is far from being ideal. For many the problem has just been present for a year or two, but those experiencing these horrible responsiveness problems where it may take many seconds for a menu to appear when clicking on it or a half-minute to do a VT switch, there soon may be a fix...

This is a curious problem that lived too long for my tastes. Just copying a large file from a CD to the hard drive almost freezes my GUI while it is going to be flushed to disk.
This is not acceptable.

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Except for BSOD's the only bug I found in Windows is exactly the same, but then only with read and not write. So when my dad (hobby photographer) was so tired of this shit he encountered this stupid bug in Linux. It was even more frustrating with the quick/autosave in F.E.A.R. under Wine which kept him going with Windows 7 most of the time.